settlers of catan  

Updated 11/25/2010

2010 WBC Report     

 2011 Status: pending 2011 GM commitment

Robert Kircher, RI

2010 Champion

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Event History
1999    Brad Johnson       94
2000    David Platnick     175
2001    Craig O'Brien       93
2002    David Buchholz     102
2003    Charlie Faella     131
2004    Aran Warszawski     110
2005    Rob Effinger     100
2006    Roy Gibson     102
2007    Tom Stokes     132
2008    Matt Tolman     113
2009    Rick Dutton     113
2010    Robert Kircher     112

Euro Quest Event History
2003    Brian Reynolds     29
2004    William Duke     30
2005     Legend Dan Hoffman     37
2006    Donna Dearborn     54
2007    Brian Reynolds     45
2008    Tom Dunning     56
2009     Brian Reynolds     55
2010     Rebecca Hebner     43
 Laurels

Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
  1.  Rick Dutton        MD    09    114
  2.  Charlie Faella     RI    09     96
  3.  Tom Dunning        NY    09     87
  4.  Matt Tolman        UT    09     84
  5.  Brian Reynolds     MD    09     83
  6.  Rob Kircher        RI    10     75
  7.  Roy Gibson         MD    06     66
  8.  Tom Stokes         NJ    07     60
  9.  Rob Effinger       on    05     60
 10.  Aran Warszawski    is    04     60
 11.  David Buchholz     MI    02     60
 12.  Craig O'Brien      VA    01     60
 13.  David Platnick     VA    00     60
 14.  Christian Moffa    NJ    03     54
 15.  Kathy Stroh        PA    01     54
 16.  Joe Jaskiewicz     MD    06     51
 17.  Tom Saal           MI    10     42
 18.  Rodney Davidson    AZ    04     42
 19.  Cheryl Meek        MD    07     37
 20.  Ron Secunda        MD    10     36
 21.  Ken Nied           KS    06     36
 22.  Jim Fishkin        FL    05     36
 23.  Michelle Hymowitz  MD    04     36
 24.  William Duke       MD    04     36
 25.  George Brace       MA    03     36
 26.  Brian Conlon       OK    00     36
 27.  Rebecca Hebner     DC    10     30
 28.  Josh Githens       SC    07     30
 29.  Donna Dearborn     MD    06     30
 30.  Brad Johnson       IL    99     30
 31.  Jeremy Osteen      MD    10     24
 32.  Harald Henning     CT    08     24
 33.  Jon Izer           MD    07     24
 34.  Virginia Colin     VA    06     24
 35.  Jeff Bowers        UT    05     24
 36.  Alan Sudy          VA    02     24
 37.  Kim Foster         TX    00     24
 38.  Legend Dan Hoffman MD    05     20
 39.  Randy Buehler      WA    10     18
 40.  Bill Zurn          CA    10     18
 41.  Daniel Ottey       PA    09     18
 42.  Shivendra Chopra   MD    09     18
 43.  William Lawhorn    VA    09     18
 44.  Bob Wicks, Jr      CT    08     18
 45.  Mikkel Christensen dk    08     18
 46.  Pierre LeBoeuf     MD    07     18
 47.  Jed Shambeda       PA    06     18
 48.  Haim Hochboim      is    04     18
 49.  Mike Musko         FL    03     18
 50.  Marvin Pinkert     MD    02     18
 51.  Chuck Krueger      MA    01     18
 52.  Ike Porter         MD    99     18
 53.  Leigh Eirich       MD    10     12
 54.  Doug Galullo       MD    10     12
 55.  Peter Eirich       MD    10     12
 56.  Andrew Roosen      MD    09     12
 57.  Mike Brazinski     MD    08     12
 58.  Sue Lanham         MD    08     12
 59.  Bob Runnicles      FL    06     12
 60.  Mike Richey        VA    05     12
 61.  Thomas Browne      PA    04     12
 62.  David Burkey       PA    04     12
 63.  Charlie Hickok     PA    03     12
 64.  Scott Buckwalter   MD    03     12
 65.  Jon Shambeda       PA    02     12
 66.  Jenn Thomas        NY    02     12
 67.  Kevin Wojtasczcyk  NY    01     12
 68.  Chuck Smith        PA    99     12
 69.  Bill Murdock       NY    08      9
 70.  Tom McCorry        VA    03      9
 71.  Carl Damcke        IL    99      9
 72.  Eric Freeman       PA    07      8
 73.  Tom Strock         PA    10      6
 74.  John Weber         MD    09      6
 75.  Nick Henning       CT    08      6
 76.  Jonathan Yonce     VA    07      6
 77.  Michael Shea       CT    07      6
 78.  Andrew Arconti     MD    06      6
 79.  Phil Rennert       MD    06      6
 80.  Marty Hoff         TX    04      6
 81.  Katherine McCorry  VA    03      6
 82.  Larry Loiacano     PA    07      4
 83.  Andrew Gerb        MD    05      4
 84.  Steve Shambeda     PA    09      3
 85.  Sandy Scanlon      MD    08      3
 86.  Joshua Cooper      MD    03      3
 87.  Jamie Tang         MD    99      3
 88.  Laurel Stokes      NJ    05      2

2010 Laurelists                                                Repeating Laurelists: 0

Ron Secunda, MD
2nd

Jeremy Osteen, MD
3rd

Tom Saal, MI
4th

Doug Galullo, MD
5th

Tom Strock, PA
6th

Past Winners

Brad Johnson, IL
1999

David Platnick, VA
2000

Craig O'Brien, VA
2001

David Buchholz, MI
2002

Charlie Faella, RI
2003

Aram Warszawski, Israel
2004

Rob Effinger, ON
2005

Roy Gibson, MD
2006

Tom Stokes, NJ
2007

Matt Tolman, UT
2008

Rick Dutton, MD
2009

Robert Kircher, RI
2010
     

Robert Drozd, Rebecca Melton and Carol Strock settle down to business. Carol's brother Tom would take laurels this year. Both are not too distant graduates of the WBC Juniors.

Marilyn Koleszar, back to WBC after a long absence, tries her hand at the big event. Settlers is one of the few "serious" events that draws over 100 players to a single start.

Spiel das Jahre 1995 ...

For 2010 Settlers used the same format as last years tourney with one small difference. The start was altered so that each player placed a Settlement/Road, a City/Road, followed by another Road. The resources given to each player was based on the city location and allowed players to collect one per location. This gets the game off to a quicker start and also helps keep the games moving along with an average of 90 minute rounds (including setup and initial placements). This format worked well with no games called due to time.

The format has players settling in three preliminary games. Each game is worth Tournament points, which are based on placing 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th (5, 3, 2, and 1 points, respectively). The 16 highest scoring settlers at the end of three rounds advance to the semi-finals. The tournament remained fun to run. I did ask for feedback from all players and was rewarded with lots of suggestions and positive feedback. Thanks to last year's inputs, most players came back to me with positive feedback, lots of praise and knowing that a favorite game of mine can be played by all and have a great time is my reward. I am very happy to continue the tournament in 2011 and look forward to it.

The first round filled 27 tables. Attrition from losses and reinforcements from late arrivals left us with 18 tables in Round 2 and 17 in Round 3 so the majority of the field hung around for all three Preliminary rounds. The elimination rounds advanced 16 players including three 15-point qualifiers. A 10-point qualifier earned the last seat. Thomas Saal, Rob Kircher, Jeremy Osteen and Ron Secunda won their semi-final games to guarantee that we would have our 12th different champion in as many years. Doug Galullo and Thomas Strock earned fifth and sixth place laurels with 9 VPs in their semi-final games.

Thomas took blue and was first, Ron took white, Jeremy was third with orange and Rob was red with the last choice.

EARLY GAME: At Rob's first turn he was able to collect enough cards to trade in for a city on his settlement, giving him a big advantage. Round 2 saw our first robber as he seemed to come out of hiding. By the third round, most had two settlements with Ron still a leg up, having three. Jeremy went the Development card route and was buying them at every opportunity.

MIDGAME: Rounds 5 thru 7 were the busiest; everyone enjoyed a good base income. Numbers high on the rolls were 5 and 9 and they were seemingly rolled every other turn. At this point Rob also started into the Development card pile, but Jeremy was the first to play a soldier. By Round 9, Jeremy took the Largest Army title. Scores on the board were: Thomas: 4, Ron: 7, Jeremy: 7, Rob: 7. Most players had at least one development card in their hand as well. Midgame was also when the robber was most daring, with five 7s rolled in ten tries, slowing the game between Rounds 9 and 12.

LATE GAME: With three players showing seven VPs, Rob took the lead when he played Year of Plenty, taking two wheat and built a settlement, giving him eight points. The next turn (Round 11) he played his Monopoly card, pulling in ten bricks, building three roads and a settlement. Round 12 saw Rob playing a road building card, giving him a prime location to build another settlement. Round 13 saw Ron's third city appear. He now had eight points on the board. By the end of Round 13, he led with nine points to eight for Ron, seven for Jeremy and only four for Thomas.

Round 14 was the last, but not without an excellent move by Thomas. He was able to build a road and settlement and block the location that Rob was trying to expand into. With the map completely filled, Rob would have to either start upgrading settlements or buy development cards for a win, but since he was now being cut off from trading, it would have to be on his own. Jeremy was able to play a soldier on Rob, blocking his Ore, but in the end, Rob was able to roll the hard 10, get another Ore and buy a card - that yielded a VP and the title!

The ladies were well represented with 31 in the field, but none were able to break into the top six and we have yet to have a female champ in 12 years.

Stephanie Welch is a real gamer. Any young lady who is not intimidated by two days against 50 Hannibal sharks is a keeper in my book.

GM Kelsey Lee herds her little settlers along.

I could be the next Robert Kircher.

 Settlers Junior

In the Juniors event 16 pint-sized settlers engaged in empire building on a smaller scale under the watchful eye of GM Kelsey Lee. The best proved to be Andrew Doughan, followed in order by Nick Metzger, Caitlyn Jaeger, Alex Metzger, Aiden Czyryca, and Wes Lewis.


2010 Euro Quest Laurelists

Rebecca Hebner, DC
1st

Randy Beuhler, WA
2nd

Leigh Eirich, MD
3rd

Bill Zurn, CA
4th

Peter Eirich, MD
5th

 GM      Joseph Maiz  [2nd Year]   NA
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